Another Java technology blog from a developer far away from home

Month: May 2017

We recently migrated our platform towards Kubernetes. That’s for sure one of the best move, technologically speaking, that we’ve ever done. It provides stability, scalability, service discovering, centralized configuration, rolling upgrade… the list could keep going.

When you move to a platform for automating deployment and scaling like Kubernetes/DCOS, one of the things you absolutely need to get right is a proper implementation of health checks (liveness and readiness) and a graceful shutdown of your application (on top of compute resources, but that’s another topic).